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 ; he has even this great Advantage over uch weaker Species, that being equally fleet with them, and finding on every Tree an almot inviolable Aylum, he is always at liberty to take it or leave it, as he likes bet, and of coure to fight or to fly, whichever is mot agreeable to him. To this we may add that no Animal naturally makes war upon Man, except in the Cae of Self-defence or extreme Hunger; nor ever exprees againt him any of thee violent Antipathies, which eem to indicate that ome particular Species are intended by Nature for the Food of others.

But there are other more formidable Enemies, and againt which Man is not provided with the ame Means of Defence; I mean natural Infirmities, Infancy, old Age, and Sicknes of every Kind; melancholy Proofs of our